Subversions of international order
Subtitle: studies in the political anthropology of culture
By: John Borneman.
Series: SUNY series in national identities
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Political anthropology.; Political culture.; World politics.; International relations.; National characteristics.; Political socialization.; Homosexuality -- Political aspects.
Description: In this series of essays, the author shifts the focus of anthropology from a study of discrete cultures to one of alternative and sub-versions of large-scale global orders. Borneman employs new descriptive tools to analyze political disorder and its representation, issues which have become central with the end of the Cold War.

Despite living in an era when group legitimacy depends on the ability to approximate national form, we have instead been witnessing the dissolution of coherent identities and nations. Ethnographically, Borneman focuses on these transformations in Germany during the disintegration and collapse of the socialist project, concentrating on relations between the first and the second Worlds.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.